Welcome to CountryMr Joe GriffinCommunity Engagement Officer, The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle

Welcome address Professor Caroline McMillenVice-Chancellor and President, The University of Newcastle

9.15am

Keynote address Univer-Cities in the 21st Century RevisitedSir Leszek BorysiewiczVice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge (video in absentia)

9.30am

Session one

The core panel will address the complex and deeper community intertwining and the trans-disciplinary impact on the academic evolution in comprehensive or niche institutions whose origins emanate from medicine and physiology to rarer the ones in contemporary times.

Chair:Adjunct Professor Anthony SC TeoLee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Panelists:Laureate Professor John AitkenPro Vice-Chancellor, Health and Medicine, The University of NewcastleDilemma and Strategy - Shaping the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Professor Dr (Med) Frank RühliHead of Evolutionary Medicine, University of ZurichUniver-City of Zurich from an evolutionary medical perspective, 1850-2015.

Dr Gordon JohnsonFormer Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge, 2001-2010Cambridge – from medieval university to bio-medical campus: science, medicine, city and university – a long view.

Professor Bertil AnderssonPresident, Nanyang Technological UniversityRising Top Young University NTU, Singapore - From Engineering and Business to Contemporary Start-Up Medical School Complementing the Regional Medical Hub and the Silvering Population.

Keynote addressNuevo Experience of UON: From Medicine, Public Health and Beyond – Regionality and Inter-Continentality. Professor Caroline McMillenVice-Chancellor and President, The University of Newcastle

12.15pm

Lunch

1.30pm

Session two

Univer-Cities Conference 2013 Updates on USA and Canada with new emerging Univer-Cities from Hong Kong and Paris-Singapore.

Panelists: Ms Emily Marthinsen Assistant Vice-Chancellor and Campus Architect University of California Berkeley Mr John Parman Senior Associate, Gensler University of California in the Bay Area: Present and Future of a Public University.

Dr Roseann RuntePresident
and Vice-Chancellor, Carleton University Universities of Carleton and Ottawa’s impact on Canada’s National Capital Region – City of ‘Bright’ versus Paris’ ‘Light’ (video in absentia).

Emeritus Professor John Malpas Former Vice President, The University of Hong KongReinventing the University of Hong Kong in mortar and spirit with deepening engagement of the entrepreneurial fragrant city.

2.45pm

Afternoon tea

3.15pm

Session three

Strategic and evolving implications of the single key node Eco-system of globalizing Univer-Cities.

Chair:Laureate Professor Graeme Jameson AODirector, Centre for Multiphase Process, The University of Newcastle

Panelists:Professor Asit BiswasDistinguished Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and Stockholm Water Prize Winner and PractitionerCould a Single Factor Water Policy Impact a City and Redefine a Whole New Univer-City Relationship: Case of Singapore.